Surviving, West Mark

Автор: Mark Sedgwick
Название: Anarchist, Artist, Sufi: The Politics, Painting, and Esotericism of Ivan Agueli
ISBN: 1350229563 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350229563
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This book follows the life of Ivan Agueli, the artist, anarchist, and esotericist, notable as one of the earliest Western intellectuals to convert to Islam and to explore Sufism. This book explores different aspects of his life and activities, revealing each facet of Agueli's complex personality in its own right. It then shows how esotericism, art, and anarchism finally found their fulfillment in Sufi Islam.

The authors analyze how Agueli's life and conversion show that Islam occupied a more central place in modern European intellectual history than is generally realized. His life reflects several major modern intellectual, political, and cultural trends. This book is an important contribution to understanding how he came to Islam, the values and influences that informed his life, and-ultimately-the role he played in the modern Western reception of Islam.

Автор: Mark Sedgwick
Название: Anarchist, Artist, Sufi: The Politics, Painting, and Esotericism of Ivan Agueli
ISBN: 135017789X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350177895
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 100320.00 T
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Описание: This book follows the life of Ivan Agueli, the artist, anarchist, and esotericist, notable as one of the earliest Western intellectuals to convert to Islam and to explore Sufism. This book explores different aspects of his life and activities, revealing each facet of Agueli’s complex personality in its own right. It then shows how esotericism, art, and anarchism finally found their fulfillment in Sufi Islam. The authors analyze how Agueli’s life and conversion show that Islam occupied a more central place in modern European intellectual history than is generally realized. His life reflects several major modern intellectual, political, and cultural trends. This book is an important contribution to understanding how he came to Islam, the values and influences that informed his life, and—ultimately—the role he played in the modern Western reception of Islam.

Автор: Mark Asquith
Название: Lost in the New West: Reading Williams, McCarthy, Proulx and McGuane
ISBN: 150134952X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501349522
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Lost in the New West investigates a group of writers – John Williams, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx and Thomas McGuane – who have sought to explore the tensions inherent to the Western, where the distinctions between old and new, myth and reality, authenticity and sentimentality are frequently blurred. Collectively these authors demonstrate a deep-seated attachment to the landscape, people and values of the West and offer a critical appraisal of the dialogue between the contemporary West and its legacy. Mark Asquith draws attention to the idealistic young men at the center of such works as Williams's Butcher's Crossing (1960), McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985) and Border Trilogy, Proulx's Wyoming stories and McGuane's Deadrock novels. For each writer, these characters struggle to come to terms with the difference between the suspect mythology of the West that shapes their identity and the reality that surrounds them. They are, in short, lost in the new West.

Автор: Foster Mark S.
Название: Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West
ISBN: 0292742266 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292742260
Издательство: Marston Book Services
Цена: 39590.00 T
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Описание: Drawing on a wealth of archival material never before utilized, Mark Foster paints an evenhanded portrait of a man of driving ambition and integrity, perhaps the ultimate "can-do" capitalist.

Автор: Hezel Sj Francis X.
Название: On Your Mark, Get Set...: Tourism`s Take-Off in Micronesia
ISBN: 0866382801 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780866382809
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 14710.00 T
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Автор: Mark T. Johnson
Название: Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky: A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana
ISBN: 149623099X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496230997
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: From the earliest days of non-Native settlement of Montana, when Chinese immigrants made up more than 10 percent of the territory’s population, Chinese pioneers played a key role in the region’s development. But this population, so crucial to Montana’s history, remains underrepresented in historical accounts, and popular attention to the Chinese in Montana tends to focus on sensational elements—exoticizing Chinese Montanans and distancing their lived experiences from our modern understanding. The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky seeks to recover the stories of Montana’s Chinese population in their own words and deepen understanding of Chinese experiences in Montana by using a global lens.
           
Mark T. Johnson has mined several large collections of primary documents left by Chinese pioneers, translated into English here for the first time. These collections, spanning the 1880s through the 1950s, provide insight into the pressures the Chinese community faced—from family members back in China and from non-Chinese Montanans—as economic and cultural disturbances complicated acceptance of Chinese residents in the state. Through their own voices Johnson reveals the agency of Chinese Montanans in the history of the American West and China.
 

Автор: Joy, Eileen A. Ramsey, Mark K.
Название: Postmodern beowulf
ISBN: 1933202084 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781933202082
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Описание: Includes twenty-four essays, including a preface, introduction, afterword, and sections containing seminal methodological pieces by such giants as Edward Said and Michel Foucault, as well as contemporary applications to Beowulf and other Old English and Germanic texts focusing on historicism, psychoanalysis, gender, textuality, and post-colonialism.

Автор: Bryan Bruce C.
Название: 40 West: Two Brothers Take the Trip to Mark a Lifetime
ISBN: 1098389867 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098389864
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: 40 West: Two Brothers on the Trip to Mark a Lifetime is more than a collection of essays logging an American familys path through the past century. Its more than a recollection of a middle class childhood and growing up in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. This book goes beyond the classic strong person battling cancer story. 40 West: Two Brothers on the Trip to Mark a Lifetime is the story of getting to here from there. Bruce Bryan and his older brother Bon take an old Prius from Virginia to Arizona in homage to their late father who was diagnosed with a glioblastoma as a mid-80s widower and far-outlived the odds. It was a journey Hugh Bryan knew well and took twice a year from the mid 1980s until just a few years ago. Like any journey, this book will leave the reader laughing, crying, wondering, and most of all thinking. While following in the footsteps of a warrior, Bruce and Bon learn a lot - about their family, the world around them, each other, and most of all themselves. This unusual approach of using the road trip to tell a series of interwoven stories works as you track with these two brothers on their winter drive along one of the United States most traveled interstate highways. It was so much more than 2,300 miles. Youll enjoy the ride with every turn of the page.

Автор: West Mark I.
Название: Theodore Roosevelt and His Library at Sagamore Hill
ISBN: 153815935X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538159354
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: Theodore Roosevelt and His Library at Sagamore Hill explores Roosevelt`s passion for reading, the role that reading books played in his political career, and an overview of the history of his personal library complete with photographs of the library as it still exists at Sagamore Hill.

Автор: Simar Candace, Warren Mark, Hinger Charlotte
Название: Librarians of the West: A Quartet
ISBN: 1432881051 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781432881054
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
Цена: 23870.00 T
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Автор: West Mark D.
Название: Drunk Japan: Law and Alcohol in Japanese Society
ISBN: 0190070846 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190070847
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Each society that consumes alcohol has its own unique drinking culture, and each society deals with the drunken products of that culture in particular ways.

As Mark D. West shows in Drunk Japan, the distinctive features of Japanese drinking culture and its intoxication-related laws are not simply interesting in and of themselves, but offer a unique window into Japanese society more broadly. Drawing upon close readings of over 5,000 published Japanese
court opinions on drunkenness-related cases, he provides a rich description of Japanese alcohol consumption, drinking culture, and intoxication. West reveals that the opinions not only show patterns in what, where, and why people drink in Japan, but they also focus to a surprising extent on
characteristics (including occupation, wealth, gender, and education) of individual litigants. By examining the consistencies and contradictions that emerge from the cases, West finds that, at its most extreme, the Japanese legal system is hyper-individualized. Focusing on individual people
sometimes leads courts to ignore forensic evidence, to rely on post-arrest drinking tests, and to calculate prison sentences based on factors such as a mother's promise to help her adult child abstain.

Cumulatively, the colorful and often tragic cases West uses not only illuminate the complexity of the culture, but they also reveal an entirely new vision of Japanese law and a comprehensive picture of alcohol use in Japanese society writ large.

Автор: Rainsley, Mark
Название: South west sea kayaking
ISBN: 1906095280 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781906095284
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Цена: 21110.00 T
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Описание: Describes the south-west coast of England in 50 voyages, from the Isle of Wight to the Severn Estuary. This book presents the navigational and tidal information a sea kayaker needs on this magnificent section of coast.